![]() ![]() troops he sees this event as a fulcrum, with Indians’ defeat ensured after centuries-long warfare and yet survivors, mostly penned up on reservations, galvanized to forge a path back to freedom.Īfter an engaging overview, “The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee” wisely bears down on recovery, as tribes grappled with bureaucratic oppression, rampant poverty and alcoholism and eventual political organization the rise of Red Power culminated in a standoff at Wounded Knee in 1973, a coda to the earlier bloodshed.įor decades Indians were forced to adapt to white expectations and cruelty but often triumphed on their own terms. ![]() He opens with the Wounded Knee massacre in 1890, when 150 Lakota Sioux were slaughtered by U.S. Treuer evokes, with simmering rage, the annihilation of Indian lives and worlds, but he also unearths a secret history of Indians flourishing in art, government, literature, science and technology. In his stirring new book, “The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee,” Ojibwe writer David Treuer rejects Brown and others as simplistic by failing to grasp how well Indian tribes have played the bad hand dealt them. Amid the ferment of the civil rights era, Dee Brown published his classic “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” in 1970, striking down myths of how the West was won while offering a more accurate account of American Indian victimization. ![]()
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